December 12, 2025
The first Digital Commons conference, titled Digital Commons: Infrastructures, Design & the Ethics of Autonomy will be held in Athens, Greece on 8-10 October 2026.
It is an interdisciplinary conference, co-organised by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos.
The conference invites papers and panel proposals that critically explore digital commons not as fixed platforms or technical solutions, but as ongoing, situated struggles over autonomy, access, and collective care. Drawing from decolonial design, infrastructure studies, anthropology, STS, design research, feminist & indigenous studies, and informatics, the event centers on how communities, scholars, and technologists enact commons through/about/for digital infrastructures.
Alongside academic panels and presentations, parallel activities will be hosted at AiTHERION, a hub for public dialogue developed by NCSR Demokritos and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. These events will promote public dialogue and encourage cross-disciplinary and civic engagement.
Core themes include:
- Infrastructural Commoning, Law & Governance
- Designing Otherwise & Ethics/Accountability
- Value, Labor, and Ownership
- Anthropologies of Mediation & Cultural AI Commons
- Technopolitics & Epistemic Justice
- Interdisciplinary Constellations
Submission deadline: 15 February 2026
Proposals should be submitted through www.digicommons.org
Attendance is free of charge; no registration fees apply.
Please find the full Call for Papers and Panels (PDF), here.
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Digital Commons: Infrastructures, Design & the Ethics of Autonomy